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28 de sept. de 2023 · El mariscal Henri-Philippe Pétain, más conocido como Philippe Pétain, fue un militar francés que se destacó durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918) como comandante de las tropas francesas que vencieron en la batalla de Verdún (1916), lo que le valió la consideración de héroe nacional.
Henri Philippe Pétain. Político y militar francés. Nació el 24 de abril de 1856 en Cauchy-à-la-Tour, Paso de Calais. Cursó estudios en la academia militar de Saint-Cyr y en la École Supérieure de Guerre de París y durante muchos años fue oficial de infantería e instructor del ejército.
- Hero of Verdun
- Between The World Wars
- Vichy Regime
- Estimates of Pétain's Career
- Further Reading
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Promoted to brigadier general on Aug. 31, 1914, Pétain distinguished himself at the Battle of the Marne (1914) and in June 1915 was named a full general and given command of the 11th Army. When the Germans decided in 1916 to end the war with a massive concentrated attack on the French line at Verdun, Pétain was ordered to stop the offensive at all ...
Named marshal of France on Nov. 21, 1918, Pétain emerged from the war second only to Ferdinand Foch in prestige. It was only natural that Pétain was regarded as a high military authority, but the consequences later proved catastrophic. Vice president of the Supreme War Council after 1920 and inspector general of the army after 1922, Pétain used his...
Ambassador to Spain at the outbreak of World War II, Pétain was recalled and appointed vice-premier in May 1940 by Premier Paul Reynaud in an attempt to bolster his foundering government. With the fall of France imminent, Reynaud resigned on June 16, 1940, and President Albert Lebrun asked the 84-year-old Pétain to form a new government whose first...
Pétain remains an acutely controversial figure in recent French history. He is the object of an as yet unsuccessful effort at rehabilitation, his right-wing admirers depicting him as the "crucified savior of France" and claiming that his self-sacrifice after 1940 "will one day count more for his glory than the victory of Verdun." Not only did Pétai...
A well-researched and interesting work on Pétain is Richard Griffiths, Pétain: A Biography of Marshal Philippe Pétain of Vichy (1972). For the period before 1940 the major work is Stephen Ryan, Pétain the Soldier (1969). For the Vichy period there is an enormous partisan literature whose purpose is either to condemn or exonerate Pétain. An example ...
Lottman, Herbert R., Pétain, hero or traitor: the untold story, New York: W. Morrow, 1985. Smith, Gene, The ends of greatness: Haig, Pétain, Rathenau, and Eden: victims of history, New York: Crown Publishers, 1990. □
HENRI PHILIPPE PETAIN if not impossible. In 1917, after the failure of Nivelle's sanguinary spring offensive, Petain was called to replace him, and he took command of the North and. North-East Armies. Several divisions, tired of fighting while politicians and shirkers had a good time far from the front, mutinied. Petain succeeded in stopping ...
MARSHAL PETAIN.1 BY CHARLES BAUSSAN. HENRI-PHILIPPE Petain was born on April 24, 1856, in the good-sized village of Cauchy-a-la-Tour, which lies on the old road between Liners and St.-Pol sur-Ternoise in the Pas de Calais. Cauchy, though it is on the edge of the mining " black country " and close to the
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Pétain (Cauchy-à-la-Tour, Norte-Paso de Calais, 24 de abril de 1856-Port-Joinville, isla de Yeu, Países del Loira, 23 de julio de 1951), más conocido como Philippe Pétain, fue un general y jefe del Estado francés.
Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), commonly known as Philippe Pétain ( / peɪˈtæ̃ /, French: [filip petɛ̃]) or Marshal Pétain (French: Maréchal Pétain ), was a French general who commanded the French Army in World War I and became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, dur...
